From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265768AbUHWBfu (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265805AbUHWBfu (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:35:50 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:6815 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265768AbUHWBfs (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:35:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc32 use simplified mmenonics From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Albert Cahalan Cc: tab@snarc.org, linux-kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <1093135526.5759.2513.camel@cube> References: <1093135526.5759.2513.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093224281.9537.279.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:24:42 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'd rather you went the other way, replacing these > barely-documented instructions with ones that are > easy to look up. Motorola has about a zillion of > these "simplified" instructions. I guess Motorola > and IBM were jealous of Intel's CISC instructions. It's just simplified mnemonics, not instructions ;) > The big problem is this: > THESE ARE NOT IN THE INDEX!!!!!! Yah, that sucks, I tend to agree... I've had a hard time in the "early days" finding some of them in the manuals > So, if I forget what one of these many instructions > does, I'll have quite the time paging through the > manual trying to find it. > > If it's not in the index, please avoid it. -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt